The Globalist

Reflections on the present-day challenges for the United States, the self-appointed beacon of “democracy.”

U.S. journalists may balk at the Trump White House calling them the opposition, but that’s their proper role.

What the Trump Administration is likely to do instead to get the immigration outcomes it wants.

It’s a lop-sided world when a Republican billionaire turned President cancels a corporatist trade deal eagerly pursued by a Democratic administration.

Is the new US President really trying to resolve the competitiveness challenge by relying on outdated 1960s style, Brazilian economic concepts?

In a curious role reversal, it was a Japanese Prime Minister who stole the march on Trump and his anti-globalism chants.

The domestic set-up in the US, with two dominant political parties, is not conducive to constructive engagement. It favors paralysis or overreach.

The inclination of establishment politicians to overpromise is the core cause of the rise of populism.

A reflection on the strategic consequences of accidental American political inversions.

Is Donald Trump trying to resurrect the times of “Big Oil” – now via the U.S. State Department?